Data shows that restrictive abortion laws are not associated with
lower abortion rates.
Some journalists argue that
lower abortion rates from countries such as Romania is also due to corruption, since these funds are much harder to use for something else, as opposed to internal funds.
Restricting safe abortions through similar interventions like the global gag policy in America does not lead to
lower abortion rates, it just pushes it underground.
At one point it even commends to the attention of the EU «examples of Member States combining the liberal legislation of abortion with effective sexuality education, high - quality family planning services and the availability of different contraceptives which combine
lower abortion rates and higher birth rates.»
In addition, some surveys show that here in the U.S., states with more abortion restrictions do in fact have
lower abortion rates, suggesting legal changes may indeed have some effect.
Recent data published by The Lancet journal shows that countries where abortion is illegal or heavily restricted — mainly in Africa and Latin America — don't have
lower abortion rates than the rest of the world.
Lancet researchers looked at the legal status of abortion and found that it didn't correlate with
lower abortion rates.
Countries where abortion is illegal don't have
lower abortion rates — but they don't have higher ones, either.
Canada has a much
lower abortion rate with a higher atheist / agnostic rate than the US (and there are NO restrictions on abortion in Canada).
The least religious countries on the planet are the ones with the happiest and healthiest citizens, lowest levels of corruption, low crime rates, low STD rates,
low abortion rates, low teen pregnancy rates, high levels of education, the most egalitarian societies, etc..
Strange that Canada has
a lower abortion rate than the US when Canada has a lower rate of religion (your post confirms it) and has ZERO restrictions on abortion (unlike the US).
Economic assistance to low income families is correlated with a 20 %
lower abortion rate.
Some point out that legalized abortion itself seems to
lower the abortion rate.
The lowest abortion rates in the world - less than 10 per 1,000 women of reproductive age - are in Europe, where abortion is legal and available
To me it only
lowers the abortion rate.
Adolescents have
the lowest abortion rate among all women below age 35 (19.6 per 1,000 women).
Washington, DC — Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, issued the following statement in response to a Contraceptive CHOICE Study finding that access to no co-pay birth control — as is outlined in the Affordable Care Act — leads to significantly
lowered abortion rates.
Not exact matches
In countries where
abortions are legal - and even free — the
rate of
abortions are much
lower.
Proponents of contraception, on the other hand, predicted in the late 60s that widespread contraceptive use would decrease divorce
rates, increase marital satisfaction,
lower unwanted pregnancies and
abortions.
A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher
rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher
rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection
rates, teen pregnancy, and
abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide
rates drop to historical
lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.
- Risk to a woman's health of childbirth (during first trimester,
abortions have a death
rate that is more than five times
lower than the risk of death to mothers from childbirth.)
In the eight years since we've had a pro-choice president, the
abortion rate in the U.S. has dropped to its
lowest since 1973.
They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as
low as one hundredth of a human being, the
lowered crime
rate would not come near justifying the number of
abortions.
But Clinton is far better positioned to keep the
abortion rate at the record
low it saw under President Obama while the Republican Party works for the next four years to produce the kind of candidate the people of this country deserve.
This is an interesting statistic to discuss, but to claim (as the pro-lifer did) the outlawing of
abortion lowered maternal mortality
rates is incorrect.
Majority of University professors are atheist Majority of scientists are atheists Poverty
rate is
lower among atheists IQ
rates are higher among atheists Illiteracy
rates are
lower among atheists Average Income
rates are higher among atheists Divorce
rates are
lower among atheists Teen pregnancy
rates are
lower among atheists STD Infection
rates are
lower among atheists
Abortion rates are
lower among atheists Crime
rates are
lower among atheists Homicide
rates are
lower among atheists Please tell me... who is really blessed????????
He argues that the reason why
abortion rates are
lower in Germany is because they have more generous social programs.
Not to mention that
abortion rates are
lower in atheistic countries, suggesting that it's the faithful getting a higher percentage of
abortions per capita.
These two countries have a
lower crime
rate and
abortion rate, which you can easily look up.
Despite having a higher proportion of atheists and agnostics (and no restrictions on
abortion unlike the US), the
abortion rate is MUCH
LOWER in Canada.
America's
abortion rate fell to the
lowest level since Roe v. Wade.
Florida, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington D.C. had the highest
rates of
abortion, while Wyoming, Mississippi and South Dakota had the
lowest and all only had one
abortion clinic in each state.
Can you tell me why Canada has a
lower abortion and murder per capita
rate than the US despite being less religious?
Further, on average and generally speaking, atheists have fewer divorces,
abortions, and STDs, and
lower poverty
rates, homicide
rates, overall crime
rates, and teen pregnancy
rates.
In Japan, the breast cancer
rate is much
lower than in the West, but so is the
abortion rate, even in the absence of oral contraceptives.
The 2011
rate (the most recent year for which data is available) is the
lowest since 1973, when America's
abortion rate was 16.3.
With
abortion clinics closing at record
rates as
abortions hit near - record
lows and state restrictions hit near - record highs, a respected report released today reveals that U.S.
abortions have dropped to their
lowest rate since 1973 — the year the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.
Tough economic times may be responsible for America's declining
abortion rate, which is at a 10 - year
low.
This year holds a special milestone to celebrate: The Guttmacher Institute reported this week that
abortion rates have dropped to a record
low in recent years.
The
abortion rate in the United States is now the
lowest since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.
According to a new report from the pro-choice organization, The Guttmacher Institute, between 2008 and 2011,
abortions in America fell by 13 percent — hitting the
lowest rates in nearly 40 years.
It obviously makes more sense to serve and educate the poor which among other things will
lower the
rate of unwanted pregnancies, than to try and make
abortion illegal, for instance.
The
abortion rate was highest at 33 per 1,000 for women aged 19 and 20, the same as in 2009 and slightly
lower than the highest
rates in the year 2000 (34 per 1,000 for both 19 and 20 year olds).
The under - 16
abortion rate was 3.9 per 1,000 women and the under - 18
rate was 16.5 per 1,000 women, both
lower than in 2009 (4.0 and 17.6 per 1,000 women respectively) and in the year 2000 (3.9 and 18.3 per 1,000 women respectively).
Abortion rates in the US are the
lowest in 40 years, dropping to 16.9 per 1000 fertile women in 2011 from a peak of 29.3 in 1981.
It also noted that
abortions in Texas before HB2 were «extremely safe with particularly
low rates of serious complications and virtually no deaths.»
In this case, you may provide the following explanations in your persuasive essay on
abortion: in some countries, the birth
rate is much
lower than the death
rate.
In females, an estrus (Failure to cycle), infertility,
abortion &
lowered rate of young one's survival is common, while in males lack of libido, the stopping of testicle growth, infertility &
lowered sperm production is noted.
so you find the idea of national and international efforts to promote smaller families and to generally
lower birth
rates among the world's poorest countries by making birth control and
abortion universally and readily available to be an outrageously barbaric and unfair notion, do you???
After adjusting for
lower levels of sexual activity among adolescents however, we find that adolescents have the highest
abortion rate among all age - groups.